Senior Producer, Curriculum ContentDiscovery Ed

Introduction

Discovery Education’s Espresso service is a multi-award-winning digital curriculum service for primary school students and their teachers, subscribed to by thousands of schools in the UK and internationally. Starting in Foundation and extending to upper key stage 2, Espresso specialises in translating curriculum concepts and objectives into highly engaging digital media, designed to capture the imagination of all students regardless of ability level and excite them to want to learn and develop.

Job overview

The Curriculum specialist plays a vital role within the small team that not only creates, reversions and delivers content but ensures the service develops strategically and constantly evolves to meet the changing needs of our thousands of subscribers.

The Senior Curriculum Producer work across various editorial projects, producing high-quality digital educational resources for primary school children and their teachers. The role also involves supervising the Assistant Producer. This position will have a reporting line to the Head of Production and work closely alongside the Instructional Designer

Duties and responsibilities:

• Producing and advising on high quality curriculum aligned content for both teachers and pupils.
• Aligning and localising content to UK standards and learning objectives.
• Manage and plan highlight rows with timely curriculum content.
• Liaising and supporting colleagues in production, particularly concerning the news service and topical channels.
• Quality assuring/editing new learning content including working closely with other team members to ensure content is uploaded correctly with titles, keywords and descriptions relevant to curriculum.
• Writing curriculum outlines for video content texts for multimedia activities and pintables, and the accompanying teacher support notes.
• Ability to produce differentiated content and content that meets SEND needs.
• Staying fully conversant and up to date with DE products and services in UK/Intern.
• Advising the sales and marketing team on product updates and any changes in user experience.
• Representing the ‘voice of the teacher’ in the content team: ensuring that all content is developed in line with best educational practice; keeping abreast of trends in education and developments in government policy.
• Assisting with product training and sales enablement across the UK/International business.
• Receiving and responding to customer feedback relating to educational content, features and functions in service.
• Representing the ‘voice of the teacher’ in the content team: ensuring that all content is developed in line with best educational practice; keeping abreast of trends in education and developments in government policy.
• Liaising with external subject specialists and subject associations; being fully aware of current educational thinking in the delivery of specific subjects.
• Working with colleagues across the Production and Marketing departments to agree on roll-out plans for new content.
• Working with corporate education partnership colleagues to deliver educational content as contractually agreed with third parties.
• Working with product development teams to factor in upcoming functionality into content planning as well communicating developments that would be beneficial to customers.
• Identifying bugs or issues and problem solving as well as communicating to appropriate teams to get them resolved as quickly as possible.
• Working to agreed budget and timescale, hitting sign-off points, working quickly and accurately.